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Tim Leatherman

10 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 31, 2022 by Tim Leatherman · said 9 times in 3 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Jan 31, 2022
Disclosure
Tim Leatherman frequently needed pliers during his 1975 budget road trip
“On that trip, I was carrying a pocket knife, a multi-blade pocket knife, like a Boy Scout type knife, and I was using that for everything from adjustment making well, from Using the knife blade for slicing food for dinner to the can opener for opening cans and…”
Tim Leatherman Jan 31, 2022 ▶ 15:20 Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman
Jan 31, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tool makers rejected Leatherman prototype as an unsellable gadget
“And when I wrote to them, the answers back was, sorry, this is not a tool, it's a gadget, and gadgets don't sell.”
Tim Leatherman Jan 31, 2022 ▶ 28:44 Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman
Jan 31, 2022 neutral
Insight
Tim Leatherman: Competing catalogs monitored each other and rushed to buy hot products
“It turned out that the catalogs were all monitoring each other, and if they got a sense there was a hot product, then they all wanted on board. Then we started getting calls from all these catalogs that had turned us down before or hadn't even responded.”
Tim Leatherman Jan 31, 2022 ▶ 46:34 Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman
Jan 31, 2022
Insight
Leatherman: It is better to persist too long than give up too soon
“There's a fine line between persistence and failure to accept reality, and I was determined to try to go on too long before giving up too soon.”
Tim Leatherman Jan 31, 2022 ▶ 31:06 Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman
Jan 31, 2022
Assertion Supported
Tim Leatherman helped evacuate 20 orphans just before the fall of Saigon
“The adoption agency that still hadn't been, we still hadn't been able to get out yet, and so about five days before, I left and brought out and helped to bring out about our remaining 20 children or so.”
Tim Leatherman Jan 31, 2022 ▶ 12:59 Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman
Jan 31, 2022
Insight
Asking prospects for advice opens doors better than pitching them directly
“If you try to sell stuff to people, they get their antenna up. If you ask them for advice, they're plenty willing to talk to you.”
Tim Leatherman Jan 31, 2022 ▶ 30:21 Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman
Jan 31, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gerber rejected Tim Leatherman's original multi-tool prototype for not being a knife
“After a couple of weeks, I hadn't heard from them, and I was getting really anxious, so I called them, and they said sorry, we decided to not take this on. It's not a knife, it's a tool.”
Tim Leatherman Jan 31, 2022 ▶ 27:42 Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman
Jan 31, 2022
Disclosure
Leatherman spent roughly $6,400 on patents and equipment to develop his prototype
“I believe the patent cost about 1400 dollars, and I probably put in maybe 5000 dollars into the Purchasing various types of equipment”
Tim Leatherman Jan 31, 2022 ▶ 31:39 Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman
Jan 31, 2022 positive
Opinion
Tim Leatherman calls living in 1972 Saigon his most formative experience
“It was the best experience of my life, the most formative experience of my life.”
Tim Leatherman Jan 31, 2022 ▶ 6:27 Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman
Jan 31, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Tim Leatherman: First tool sale was $175 to San Francisco mechanic
“He was a German immigrant. He had moved to San Francisco, and he had started a auto repair business. Repairing high-end German automobiles. His name was Wolf Schultz Tottenpach, and he agreed to pay 175 dollars. To buy a knife I would, that I would go back and…”
Tim Leatherman Jan 31, 2022 ▶ 36:42 Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman
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